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I'm in the middle of it. Started on Thursday, breaking it with salad lunch with my mother on Thursday afternoon. Have not been sleeping particularly well, some due to Personal Life Drama(tm), but if I weren't prone to sleep poorly I bet it would bother me less. Real low on focus, hands have been aching on and off all week (I've managed to isolate this to a gluten sensitivity). I started the first few days with the same headachy, I-don't-want-to-get-out-of-bed-yet feeling that I had back when I w… Continue

I feel awake and alive, although my eyes still aren't focusing right when I look at the computer :\ Over the course of the week I decided to let myself have some fruit juices because I was going kind of mad with just citrus, also I had to have lunch with my mother on Tuesday and it would have looked rude to not eat anything. We went to this macrobiotic place where I had carrot juice and some miso broth. So I'm sure the cleanse wasn't as effective as it could have been if I'd just followed the Ma… Continue

Wow, I think I may be in that group of people who just can't do the salt water flush every morning. I felt like I was going to vomit! I had to lay around and do some really gentle floor yoga for about an hour, my body was just not happy with it. I didn't get up til about 11am (late night & trying to beat the caffeine headache) but there were some times between then and 12:30 when I just didn't feel like moving, I felt so ill.

BUT.

I got my wind back around 1pm and have been go, go, go ever… Continue

This is what I do, I realized. When everything is just too frustrating and I feel like the world is asking too much of me, I can't get angry because that would make me look irrational and stupid (or so say the voices in my head, haha). When I can't get angry, I have to do something to suppress that anger, and that often comes in the form of overprocessed starch + fat - a burrito, pad thai, etc. And of course I could eat the raw versions of these things, but that's not the point - food really *is… Continue

For some reason, eating guacamole made from 2 avocados, a tomato, and some sunflower seed "sour cream" with a few sauerkraut-flax crackers (from my local health food store) made me feel incredibly, disgustingly full and brain-foggy. It reminded me of the way I have felt after eating huge SAD meals with beer. However, I'm having trouble getting enough calories without eating a lot of seeds and avocados. I'm experiencing a lot of fatigue lately, some of it is from coming out of a depressive episod… Continue